Overview From the Sugru website: “Our dream is to make fixing, modifying and making things easy and fun for anyone, and Sugru is our solution.” So, this review isn’t explicitly techy. However, I’ve used this product for a bunch of tech related issues so I decided that it should count. Sugru is described as […]
Flashcard Machine Makes Flashcards … In A Flash. Sorry For My Lack Of Imagination On This One. | Audio Review # 137
Overview Flashcard Machine is what it says, and straight forward, no nonsense, flash card generator that is free to all users, with the reality of ads, and is ad-free if one donates to the cause. I like this business model, allowing users to choose what we wish to see. The crowd-funding nature also appeals to […]
Mouse Locator Targets Your Mouse | Audio Review # 136
Overview This app can be downloaded onto your computer and then places a “target” symbol around your mouse so that it is easy to find and follow. There are other versions of this app (programs like mousepose) but this one is the simplest I’ve found. You go to the website and download the program on […]
Sleep Cycle App Takes The Question, “How’d You Sleep?” To A New Level | Audio Review #134
Overview This app is all about data and analytics. Sleep Cycle Alarm app allows you to track how well you are sleeping. To use it you turn the app on and place your mobile device face down on your bed and the app tracks your movement throughout the night to determine how well you are […]
Famous Painting App Frames European Art History With Broad Strokes| Audio Review #119
Overview Famous Paintings is an app for Androids (Google Play), but the Apple equivalent is for-cost, and not the same (iTunes App Store). I will review the Android app which allows users to examine 100 of Europe’s most famous … well, you guessed it … paintings, on Android-capable handheld devices. Concerns As a fun exercise […]
Dyslexie Font Makes Reading a Breeze! | Audio Review #118
Overview A parent introduced me to a new typeface that I love. It’s called Dyslexie Font. The typeface was created in 2008 by Christian Boer. Boer is dyslexic and wanted to create a font that made it easier for people like him to read. In the past few years this font has gotten a lot […]
Audio Review # 116 | Fakebook Lets Students Create a Fake Facebook Page
Overview What we put on our Facebook home page usually involves some deep thinking about how to put our best “face” forward. We have to represent our personalities in a few pictures, posts, interests and taglines. Now, this sort of thinking process just might be interesting if you were to apply it to a character […]
Audio Review #115 | Touch Physics Lets Students Digitally Interact With Pushes and Pulls
Touch Physics is an iPad or Android app. It’s designed to teach students physics through challenges that become increasingly harder the more they solve. Each challenge requires students to apply the concepts of force and motion to solve. In order to solve the challenges students draw shapes on the screen to cause actions. For example […]
Audio Review #112 | RefME Makes Citations As Easy As Taking A Picture
Overview RefME is the next generation research tool that makes building works cited and bibliographies for research impressively easy. So, what makes RefME special compared to EasyBib, Son of Citation, and any of half a dozen other citation automaters? First, RefME takes advantage of working on computers, iPhones, and Android devices. RefME stores your various […]
Audio Review #95 | Readability Makes Reading off the Web a More Enjoyable Experience.
Overview I’m going to let Readability speak for themselves, “Readability is a free reading platform that aims to deliver a great reading experience wherever you are, and to provide a system to connect readers to the writers they enjoy.” Essentially what their site does is that it takes articles from the web and cleans them […]
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